A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

Example of why I need better production values on my show: http://media.engadget.com/videos/Eng_Cat_PSP_vs_DS.mpg (Because it's quite clever, and contains nerdy catfighting. Beep beep beep bonk rowr.)

I am a hair's breadth away from crumbling in my resistance to buying a Nintendo DS, even though I never bought more than the two at-purchase-time games I got with my Game Boy SP two years ago. (It did take me like a year to get through every last bit of Wario Ware, though, and I enjoyed every minute of it. (And yes, I know there's a DS version of that game now...))

But I discovered yesterday that at $130, it's cheaper than I thought it would be, making it indeed half the price of a PSP, just as that educational video pointed out. And I just discovered that the internets are full of hairy hackers who've already published programming libraries for it, including some that take advantage of its 802.11b wifi. Ohh sexy.

VV's budget includes a line-item covering the purchase of a pile of potential "target systems" like this, but... I may jump the gun a little on this particular one.

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Sorry I don't swap out my userpic more often. Who knew I'd like to use the Reverend Sir Doctor's portrait so much. I really do, too.

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Oh, I just remembered that I did in fact get two other Game Boy games, later that year: Final Fantasy Tactics, which is great and addicting but I got burnt out on, and Super Mario 3, which I physically lost cuz those cartridges are so goldang tiny. And the DS media are supposedly even smaller! I will have to set up some kind of wee storage system for them I guess.